Best World War II movies

Actors : Andrey Panin, Andrey Krasko, Aleksandr Golovin, Sergei Rychenkov,
Directors : Aleksandr Atanesyan,

A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin. The Red Army has a gang of ...

Actors : Patrick Bergin, Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, Robert Joamie,
Directors : Vincent Ward,

Fantastic improbabilities, happenstance and the undying bridge of love are part of this romantic fantasy about an Inuit who crosses years, oceans and the ravages of WWII to find his ...

Actors : Rod Taylor, Werner Peters, Eva Marie Saint, James Garner,
Directors : George Seaton,

Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Paolo Barzman,

Semi-retired university professor David Winters and his wife and former student Melanie Winters née Lansing live on a hobby farm in the Eastern Townships of Quebec with their adult son ...

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Trough fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to ...

Actors : Nina Bergman, Daniel Bernhardt, Louis Mandylor, Timothy V. Murphy,
Directors : Jesse V. Johnson,

Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold hunted by the Nazis, the French resistance, and the Americans alike.

Actors : Andrey Terentev, Vladimir Yaglych, Dmitriy Volkostrelov, Danila Kozlovsky,
Directors : Andrey Malyukov,

My iz budushchego, or We Are from the Future, is a movie about time travel. Four 21st century treasure seekers are transported back into the middle of a WWII battle in Russia. The movie's ...

Actors : François Cluzet, Nils Tavernier, Marie Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Marie Latour, a woman of limited schooling, raises two children in a ratty flat during World War II in occupied France. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from German captivity, too weak to ...

Actors : Vladimir Privaltsev, Aleksandr Nazarov, Aleksandr Lebedev, Sergo Zakariadze,
Directors : Rezo Chkheidze,

During World War II, Georgy Makharashvili, an old peasant wine-grower, leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front lines to find his son, a wounded soldier. But before the father ...

Actors : Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova, Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova,
Directors : Stanislav Rostotskiy,

During WWII in a small village outpost, a commander has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.

Actors : Tyler Wood, Yusuke Ogasawara, Timothy V. Murphy, Hiroyuki Watanabe,

In post-war Tokyo, undefeated Japanese Champion trains for his upcoming bout against the American challenger. Pitted amongst political tensions, the fighters' parallel journeys will test the very limits of human spirit.

Actors : John Turk, Trevor Donovan, Michael Wayne Foster, James Maslow,
Directors : Michael B. Chait,

Inspired by the real-life German special operations unit KG 200 that shot down, repaired, and flew Allied aircraft as Trojan horses, "Wolf Hound" takes place in 1944 German-occupied France ...

Actors : Wotan Wilke Möhring, Iain Glen, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Vivian Ólafsdóttir, Jack Fox,
Directors : Óskar Thór Axelsson,

A lawyer sucked is into an international conspiracy after being accused of a murder she didn't commit. Her only chance of survival lies in uncovering the secret of an old German WWII airplane, discovered on Iceland's largest glacier.

Actors : Vladimir Mashkov, Yuliya Peresild, Sergey Garmash, Anjorka Strechel,
Directors : Aleksey Uchitel,

In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Yul Brynner, Sylva Koscina, Franco Nero,
Directors : Veljko Bulajic,

Battle on Neretva known as the ''fourth offensive'' the most humane battle in World War II led by Yugoslav partisans. In January 1943 German army, afraid of Allied invasion of Balkans, ...

Actors : Yuriy Borisov, Artur Smolyaninov, Sergey Gazarov, Olga Lerman,
Directors : Konstantin Buslov,

Wounded as tank driver in 1941 during WWII, Kalashnikov sees the latest Soviet machine gun fail. As he's also an inventor, he starts looking for improvements and in 1947 ends up with AK-47 assault rifle.

Actors : Lucy Gaskell, Louis Dempsey, Laurence Fox, Coral Beed,
Directors : Colin Teague,

Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.

Actors : Galina Andreeva, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia - like fifty thousand others during WWII.

Actors : Miki Mizuno, Les Loveday, Sam Hazeldine, Ario Bayu,
Directors : Steven Sheil,

The legend of Yamashita's Gold lures a treasure hunter and his group deep into the Indonesian jungle. Once they are trapped in an abandoned World War II Japanese bunker, they face the terrifying reality that the only way out is to go further in.

Actors : Kay Greidanus, Sigrid ten Napel, Lisa Zweerman, Jeroen van Koningsbrugge,
Directors : Pieter Kuijpers,

The story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.